The exhibition traces the development of American landscape design by analyzing a group of landscapes that were chosen for their significance, state of preservation, and chronological and geographical distribution.

April 28, 2014 6:00 pm-8:00 pmMay 2, 2014 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

May 2—May 3, 2014May 5—May 8, 2014

All Campus

The new Models to Medicine Center of the recently launched Institute for Applied Life Sciences hosts a kick-off symposium on “Models to Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities.” Talks will describe exciting basic biomedical research pursuits that have been translated into therapeutic applications.

May 2, 20144:00 pm

Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

Seniors are cordially invited to attend the 16th Annual Commencement Ball - A Gatsby Affair. This final senior gala is a formal celebration and final tradition leading up to your Commencement Ceremony.

May 6, 20144:00 pm

Campus Center, Amherst Room, 1009

The Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA) is hosting a boot camp to help students get a headstart on their Fulbright scholarship applications and assist them in crafting a convincing application.

May 10, 20141:00 pm

Earl Lorden Field

May 11, 201412:00 pm

Earl Lorden Field

The Common, a young, award-winning literary magazine published biannually from Amherst College, will celebrate the launch of Issue 07 with a picnic at the Amherst College Alumni House featuring readings by 07 contributors Nalini Jones and UMass English Professor Jeff Parker.

May 11, 20144:30 pm

Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall

Veteran qualitative researchers discuss challenges and opportunities as they arise in designing thoughtful and responsive research; considering purpose, context, potential participants and ethics; modifying the initial design based on emerging understandings of the context; and the conceptual and epistemological assumptions and their implications.

May 19, 2014

All Campus

R is a free, open source programming language that gives empirical researchers a powerful set of tools for regression analysis. Workshop participants will learn how to import and export data, perform exploratory data analysis, run multiple regressions, conduct hypothesis testing, and estimate fixed and random effects models in the R environment.

May 19—May 20, 2014 9:00 am-3:00 pm

Machmer Hall, W37e

This workshop will allow attendees to understand some of the goals and methods of social simulation, give them hands-on experience in experimenting on theoretical models, and point them to resources to begin using these tools in their own work.

May 21—May 22, 2014 9:00 am-3:00 pmMay 23, 2014 9:00 am-12:00 pm

Library, W.E.B. Du Bois, 720

May 26, 2014

Social science researchers are often interested in retrieving data from the internet. Often, this can be accomplished using so-called web-scraping techniques. This course introduces the statistical programming language R, then demonstrates techniques for web scraping using R. Finally, tools for analyzing text data in R will be presented.